“Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die," Elon Musk told the large crowds at Saturday’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
More than 100,000 people descended on Britain’s capital on Saturday for one of the country’s largest far-right rallies in decades.
The “Unite the Kingdom” rally was organized by Tommy Robinson, a convicted fraudster with a violent criminal record, and attended by billionaire Elon Musk via video link. Amid a sea of flag-waving and soccer-style chanting from large crowds that exceeded expectations, violent clashes with police led to dozens of arrests.
It came amid a surge of nationalism in the U.K., with a far-right party topping the polls, and the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk — an assassination Robinson used to mobilize support in the run-up to the event.
I’m not sure about more radicalised, but they’re more evidently centrally organised, well-funded, emboldened and numerous. Like a plague of fucking locusts. There’s serious money coming in from other countries to fan these flames. Don’t pretend this is a spontaneous expression of anything, it’s a fucking rent-a-crowd. I’ve seen the ones in my city in England. They were all bussed in.
You make it sound as if those hooligans are voicing legitimate grievances. That’s no more the case than saying the same about Krstallnacht. The arseholes in London were marching in favour of burning women and children in refugee hostels.